16th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Splendous Explosion

This peacock spun around and posed for the camera at Bluebird Gap Farm in Virginia. Some folks say that no photograph of an animal is good unless the nearest eye is captured, but I think these feathers are far finer to view than the bird's eye.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 12.2017
Date Uploaded: 04.2018
Photo Location: , United States of America
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T7i
Copyright: © Laura Irick